Rail-joint.



M TARAS.

RAIL 1mm.

APPLICATION FILED UCT.I9,1915- Patented June 5, 1917.

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RAIL 1mm. APPLICATION FILED OCT-19. l9l6.

Patented J une 5, 1917.

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Applioationflled'obtobcr 19; 1-916:

To all'whom it may concern Be it known that I", MIKOLAJ TARAs, a

subject of the Emperor of- Austria; and a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas 5 and State of Qhio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention'relat'es' to improvements in rail festening 'deviees, as applied-to standard railway construction, and has as its principal object the provision of means whereby the saddle, upon which the ends-of the rails areengaged, is so arran ed as to positively engage and blamp tfie a utting ends of the rails;

fill'thfll" object" is to provide" such has tenersTinfonns which may'bereadily applied or removed, the fasteners-being,"relatively inexpensive: to constructand applicable" to reSenteXiStSnfiioQnditi nS:

These and i e objects are-attaine'd by-the novel 3 construction-and combinetion of parts hereafter described and shownin the aoeom panyi'nge' drawings f'oi'min apart of this speoifieation, and in whi'c Figure 1 is a I perspective View showing: a fragment of track and indicating tlie" application of'the'ffisteners;

- F i Q iS aH- eHIII'ged plen view showing thanwthemiliereemueem mean and wa e-t lly; a1 -sawus is w vi'dedi firmed mo: 3

joined'bjy' e I vertical element 21 which oons'titiltes one of Specification of Letters Patient.

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' rial 25 at the sides of the plate" 18 (3111i be lesser length having a vertical portion engageable with the stem of the rail and u flange portion adapted to overlie the base of the rail, said flanged portion being on- 5 ageable below said resilient portion of the rst named splice bar, means formed with said first mentioned splice bar preventing longitudinal motion of the second splice bar, and means for securing both of said splice bars, to the rails and tie therebelow. 1o

Signed at Toledo, in the county of Lucas, agilfistam of Ohio, this 25 day of September,

MIKOLAJ TARAS. 

